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Carmel mayor says budget adopted after cuts tied to SCA 1; urges residents to watch LevelUp31 and other road projects
Summary
The mayor of Carmel said the city adopted its budget after making roughly $18 million in cuts to departmental requests to offset revenue losses related to SCA 1, and urged residents to consult INDOT and city pages for upcoming disruptions from LevelUp31 and other projects.
The mayor of Carmel said the City Council adopted the fiscal-year budget but reduced spending after state changes to municipal revenues tied to SCA 1.
"We passed our budget. Thank god," the mayor said, and added that the city's adopted general-fund amount is $144,000,000 after trimming requests that had totaled $162,000,000. "We cut 18,000,000 out of a request," the mayor said and described lobbying work that reduced an initially projected loss of $24,000,000 to about $10,000,000 for the city.
The mayor framed the cuts as necessary to protect core services and said staff…
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